Frances Arlene Burrows, 97, of La Porte City, died Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at La Porte City Nursing and Rehab Center. She was born December 14, 1916 on the Struve farm in Benton County the daughter of Ralph and Dorothy Hains Struve. She was a 1934 graduate of Mt. Auburn High School. She married Glenn J. Burrows on August 7, 1935 at the Little Brown Church in Nashua.

He preceded her in death on June 25, 2010.

She and her husband farmed most of their lives, purchasing their own farm near Brandon in 1956. They were dedicated conservation farmers. Through their conservation work, she was president of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Soil and Water Conservation of 8 states, was Secretary of Conservation and elected Women of the Year over the 8 states in 1986. In 1976 the retired and purchased 10 acres and made a lake where they built their home where the resided until they moved to La Porte City in 1999.

Survived by: two daughters, Sharon Burrows of Stone City and Marilyn Spores of Tallahassee, FL; a granddaughter, Kerry (Dan) Solomon of Cedar Rapids and a grandson, Jamison Spores of Urbandale.

Preceded in death by: her parents; her husband; a daughter, Glenda Burrows ; two sisters, Lois Miller, Donna Becker and a brother Roger Struve, Sr.